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Late Spring|Setsuko Hara

Late Spring

Setsuko Hara and Masao Mishima
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Overview

Continuing his exploration of the Japanese family and it's permutations and variations, LATE SPRING is Yasujiro Ozu's fragile tale of a young woman, a bit older than marrying age in traditional Japanese society, who lives a tranquil life with her widowed father. The father begins to worry that his beloved daughter may never leave him and thus spoil her chances for a happy life. After she refuses a proposed husband, the father tricks her by pretending to remarry. The daughter eventually marries in order to leave her father alone with his new wife, and the father who in reality had no intention of marrying, is left alone.

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Main Cast & Crew:
Yasujiro Ozu - Director
Setsuko Hara
Masao Mishima
Haruko Sugimura
Chishu Ryu
Kuniko Miyake
Toyoko Takahashi
Hohi Aoki
Jun Usami
Yumeji Tsukioka

Details

    Blu-Ray Disc Format
  • Format: Blu-ray
  • Color Format: B&W
  • UPC: 715515094412
  • Genre: DRAMA
  • Rating: NR
  • Release Date: April 2012

Movie Reviews

Synopsis:
A heartbreaking and fragile story of family devotion and sacrifice, Yasujiro Ozu presents here perhaps his most perfect film. Chisu Ryu takes up his consummate role of the solitary and thoughtful father, a widower who lives with his young daughter Noriko. Fearful that Noriko will never marry in order to care for him, the father and various supporting family members attempt to find a match for the young daughter, but to no avail. Eventually he is forced to trick his daughter, by pretending to remarry himself, thus forcing the daughter to break out on her own. Relations between father and Noriko come to a sentimental head as the two take a final trip together to Kyoto. Upon returning, Noriko is married and moves away, and the father is left alone. The simple and elegant visual and narrative structure of the film allows the universal story of a father giving up his daughter in marriage to unfurl succinctly and compellingly, making this one of Ozu's most loved films.

Notes:
Winner of Japan's Kinema Jumpo Award for Best Film of the Year.

Reviews:
"...A touching film all about attachment, connection, loneliness, abandonment..." -- Rating: A - 01/13/1995 Entertainment Weekly, p.70


"...Ozu made a string of masterpieces about Japanese middle-class families....SPRING is a good place to begin..." - 12/02/1994 USA Today, p.3D


"LATE SPRING is a profoundly calming film. It encourages the viewer to adapt to its own slow, regular heartbeat..." - 05/16/2006 New York Times, p.E3


5 stars out of 5 -- "Focusing on the everyday tragedy and humdrum bliss of family....It's beautiful and moving in the extreme." - 08/01/2010 Uncut


"[T]hough Ozu would revisit and refine Late Spring’s themes and motifs throughout the final stretch of his career, no other movie speaks more to his ability to invest tremendous emotional weight into the completely quotidian..." - 03/03/2016 A.V. Club

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